Afu felt very sorry for him.

But there was nothing she could do. She could only watch helplessly as those men slowly approached Aya.

However, many more people surrounded the Demon Lord.

The Demon Lord didn't move; he turned to look at Aya, who had fallen to the ground.

After crying out, Ah Ya gradually calmed down.

Aya couldn't speak, and her face was even somewhat ugly. But Afu still saw a resolute look in her face.

Aya took out a small fan from her storage bag.

That was something Afu had never seen before. Although he had never seen it before, Afu seemed to be able to see the powerful force contained in that small fan.

Aya disassembled the fan ribs, and her hand was cut badly in the process.

She grabbed the fan rib and plunged it hard into the ground.

Then the second one, and the third one.

There were seven in total. She was surrounded by the seven fan ribs, but the pain on her face disappeared.

Ah Ya tilted her head slightly and smiled gently at the Demon Lord.

That was the first time Afu had ever seen the Demon Lord smile like that.

It's very beautiful.

It's as beautiful as Ah Ya's smile.

As if by some unspoken understanding, they looked at each other and smiled, and then Ah Ya sat cross-legged in the circle formed by the fan ribs.

The Demon Lord drew his weapon and charged into the crowd.

The Demon Lord is very powerful. Afu once heard that the Demon Lord was already very powerful when he was a human cultivator, and now that he has become a demon, he is even more powerful.

Soon, this place became a living hell.

Afu felt very relieved because she saw that Aya was protected by those fan ribs, and no one could get close to her.

Several old men ran up to A-Ya and started yelling and cursing at her, accusing her of breaking her promise, disregarding human ethics, and betraying her word.

Ah Ya simply smiled and ignored them.

"You already knew who he was, didn't you?" A tall, burly man walked up to Aya and asked in a deep voice.

This time, Aya opened her eyes, though they were still lifeless.

"I never expected that you two, both of you, would still recognize each other even after all these changes."

Aya laughed and wrote on the ground: "I really didn't expect that you would come to me to make a deal in order to lower my guard. I underestimated your malice towards him. I thought you at least had a little bit of fatherly love for him."

The old man said coldly, "He is a traitor. He became a traitor and even became possessed by a demon because of you. Don't you feel any guilt? You are stubborn and you deserve this ending. Make him hand over the item and let you die with dignity. Isn't that better? You no longer have the Heavenly Gift. You can't use this item anymore."

"Accept your fate."

Aya: "It seems that it was your idea to steal my Heavenly Gift as well. No wonder Song Lingxiao betrayed me. The question that has troubled me for so many years has finally been answered."

Behind the tall old man, an old man with a slightly hunched back walked up and said, "People are selfish. You can't give her what she wants, but we can. Now, she's the head of a faction. Isn't that more prestigious than living in the dark underground?"

"Don't blame anyone but yourself. You possessed something you couldn't protect. If you had handed it over earlier, you wouldn't be in this situation today. Look at how many people have died because of your stubbornness."

Aya smiled faintly: "More people will die."

The tall old man frowned: "Sure enough, spending too much time with someone who's possessed by demons changes one's character. How could he have uttered such inhuman words a few days ago?"

Ah Ya's expression remained unchanged.

Afu could feel an endless sense of suffocation in these words.

Those people wanted Aya's things, and because she was weak, they ganged up on her and bullied her. Some even disowned their own children because of this.

In order to seize that thing, these people made those around A-Ya betray her, and even tried to take advantage of A-Ya's kindness, using the lives of everyone in the world as leverage to force her to submit.

Outraged, Afu wondered what could possibly drive these cultivators to such madness.

This battle was extremely fierce. Even though the Demon Lord was powerful, there were too many people attacking him.

The snowy region has turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, but the slogans of the human cultivators are still loud.

They claimed to be purging the demon race, but they actually wanted to be bandits.

How ironic.

The Demon Lord could no longer hold on.

But he remained steadfast, as if waiting for something.

Ah Ya sat there quietly, seemingly unconcerned about her future.

Finally, on the morning of the seventh day, as the first rays of sunlight pierced through the clouds and fell upon the earth, a clear chirping sound rang out at an inopportune moment.

Afu looked back and saw a man and a woman running towards him as if their lives depended on it from the horizon.

Their bodies were completely stained with blood, but it still couldn't conceal their fierce aura.

When Afu turned around, he saw that the Demon Lord had stopped what he was doing and used his last bit of strength to surround him and Aya in a barrier.

Aya also stood up and slowly walked towards the Demon Lord.

The Demon Lord reached out and supported her, then gently pulled her into his embrace.

There was nothing to say.

A sharp blade pierced through the Demon Lord's back and exited through Aya's back.

That sword belongs to the Demon Lord.

The Demon Lord understood himself and Aya.

Afu was stunned.

Why? Why?

She turned to look at the two seemingly powerful cultivators, their eyes bloodshot as they rushed over.

She seemed to know why.

"No--"

"A-Ting!"

"Aqing!"

Afu only felt a flash of white light before his eyes, and countless wails came from the white light.

Ah Fu had only one thought.

So, Ah Ya and the Demon Lord's names are Ah Ting and Ah Qing.

That sounds really good.

--

Congying collapsed to the ground, panting heavily. Meng Wanwan was very worried about her, so she thought that she should destroy the spirit-gathering array in the cave.

But Congying grabbed her arm.

She said, "Baby, could you please call them over here for me?"

Meng Wanwan nodded, dashed out of the small courtyard, and shouted, "Hey, there's been a discovery over here!"

Sure enough, everyone else quickly ran over.

Helian Xiao was the most eager: "What discovery?"

Meng Wanwan pointed behind her: "Sister Congying is acting a little strange."

As the group went inside, they saw Congying sitting in a corner, where there were some mottled marks on the wall.

She looked back and saw that everyone had arrived, then turned to look at Shangguan Liuyue.

She smiled faintly and said, "I have seen you before, six hundred years ago."

Shangguan Liuyue's pupils contracted, and she quickly took two steps forward: "What do you mean?"

Congying smiled and said, "Six hundred years ago, on the day the snowy region was destroyed, I saw you and another girl. If I'm not mistaken, she should be Baihua Zhenzhen from the Hundred Flowers Forest."

She sat down on the floor: "I remember everything now."